Gaza death toll rises
At least 118 Palestinians have been killed and 581 others injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
That includes 12 people killed and 49 injured at the US- and Israeli-backed aid centres, it added, raising the total number of aid seekers killed to 652. More than 4,537 others have been injured since the new mechanism came into force on May 27, the ministry said.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed 57,130 Palestinians and injured 135,173 others since October 7, 2023, the statement published on Telegram said.
People walk over debris at Mustafa Hafez School, sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war, following an overnight Israeli attack in Gaza City
As Gaza runs out of fuel, ‘2.1 million lives on the brink’: NRC chief
Jan Egeland, secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), has warned that fuel reserves “are gone” in the bombarded enclave.
“The last drops are being rationed to keep bare-minimum services alive. No fuel means no water, no food distribution, no health care, no telecoms – 2.1 million lives on the brink. This is no longer a logistical issue – it is life or death,” he wrote on X.
Egeland said the aid group is now trucking water to 33 sites in Gaza – down from 64 previously – to provide 85,000 Palestinians with 4.5 litres [1.1 gallons] of water per day.
That is “barely enough to drink”, he said, and “far below the 15-litre [3.9-gallon] survival standard”.
“Half of these sites depend on the municipal water utility, which has fuel for just 10 days left – after that, their water stops completely,” Egeland added.
Gaza has run out of fuel. Reserves are gone. The last drops are being rationed to keep bare-minimum services alive. No fuel means no water, no food distribution, no health care, no telecoms — 2.1 million lives on the brink.
This is no longer a logistical issue — it is life or…
— Jan Egeland (@NRC_Egeland) July 3, 2025
Israel forcing Palestinians out of most of Khan Younis, data shows
The Israeli army has issued forced evacuation orders for 83.5 percent of the southern city of Khan Younis since March 18, Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit has found, amounting to an area of nearly 89sq km (34sq miles).
Using satellite images, Sanad found that the pace of Israeli military operations in Khan Younis has intensified in the past few weeks, with Palestinians being pushed into western parts of the city.
“The latest warnings force displaced people to leave Khan Younis and head north to the remaining areas in central Gaza, particularly Deir el-Balah, which is overcrowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced persons,” it said.
Overall, Sanad found that Israel has pushed Palestinians into a 74.4sq-km (28.7sq-mile) area of the Gaza Strip, which represents about 20 percent of the enclave.
“In contrast, approximately 290.4 square kilometers, which account for 80 percent of the total area of the besieged Strip, have been marked as hazardous red zones,” it said.
